Machine element



Patented Aug. '2,4 1921.

lijven or.

Witness,

GEORGE C. WEISS, 0F OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

MACHIN E ELEMENT.

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Application filed July 1G,

To all whom t may concern Be it known that i, Grenen C. lVniss, a citizen of the United States, residing in Oakland, in the county or Alameda and State of California., have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machine Elements, of which the following is a specification.

The prese-nt linvention relates in general to a Combination of machine elements and has reference more particularly to an improved mechanical movement for realizing a so-ealled compound tumbling or revolving' motion.

is an illustrative embodiment I have selected a. washing machine as an example of reducing the invention to practice; however, its use is in no way confined to such machines as it may also ind expression in various other deviccs-for instanie: in ce ment mixers, churns, and different kinds of tumblers.

In the accompanying drawing', Figure l is a plan view of a washing machine, cement or the like mixer, illustrating the application or" the invention, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

Referring' to the drawing in detail: the principle involved primarily consists in eieet-ing a compound revolving or tumbling movement for the container 5, which may be of any desirable shape and construction to which end I propose to support the container by the standards 6 and T with bearings 8 and 9 arranged thereon in each of which is mounted a short shaft or axle. Coaxially mounted upon the shaft in the bearing 9 is a driving element represented by the pulley 10 which is adapted to be ccnnected in driving relation with a suitable power medium for driving the machine. Each or" the shafts referred to will be fixed in driving relation to a trame l1 comprising a mounting for the container which may be of any suitable construction and arrangement.

Fixed to the bearing 8 is a beveled gear l2 which is made to mesh with a like gear 13 carried by the frame l1 and iixed upon the sleeve let which loosely surrounds the part 15 of the frame 11 with the beveled gear 16 mounted upon the opposite end of the sleeve and made to mesh with another beveled gear 17 carried on an adjacent side ot the frame 11 and fixed upon the sleeve 18 which loosely surrounds the part 19 of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented A110". 2, 1921.

1920. serial No. 396,682.

the frame with still another beveled gear 2O mounted upon its opposite end.

Arranged in the opposite sides of the container 5 and extending outwardly therefrom are the shafts 21 and 22 which are supported in suitable bearings 23 and 24-- carried by the frame 1l so that the container 5 is free to rotate with its axis of rotation arranged to intersect the axis of rotation ot the frame l1. Carried upon and fixed to the shaft 22 and made to mesh with the gear 20 is a bevel gear 25, which completes the driving means for rotating the container.

F rom the above description it will be seen that the frame 11 may be rotated in a fixed orbit and when thus rotated, a rotating motion will also be imparted to the container 5 through the gear arrangement-consequently, a common driving means will impart a compound revolving or tumbling motion to the container. It will be revolved with the frame and inv the same direction at the same time the gears will impart an independent rotation to the same with its axis of rotation intersecting the axis of rotation of the trame.

In lieu of the gear arrangement shown and described, a chain drive may be provided by changing the gears 16 and 25 to sprocket wheels and connecting the same in driving relation by sprocket chains.

I claim:

l. In combination, a rotatable element, a rotatable mounting therefor, comprising a skeleton frame having a rotatable bearing on two opposite sides, a support tor the mounting arranged to support said rotatable bearings, direct driving meme for rotating the mounting in a iixed orbit with the container carried thereby, a driving gear coaxially mounted upon and fixed to a transverse part of said mounting, a driven gear carried upon one side member of said skeleton frame and adapted to meshv with said driving gear, a second driven gear mounted upon said side member ot the trame adapted to be driven by said irst named driven gear and adapted to mesh with a gear carried upon another side member of the frame, said last named gear adapted to drive a gear mounted co-axially thereof and in driving relation to a gear carried upon and in driving relation with the element; whereby the rotation of the mounting is adapted to also rotate the element in a lixed orbit independent of the mounting and with its axis of rotation intersecting the axis of rotation of the mounting.

2. In combination, a four sided skeleton frame, Said frame including horizontal ro- `tatable shafts arranged on opposite sides of the frame, bearings in which said shafts are free to rotate, means mounted upon one of said shafts Comprising a `driven element 10 for revolving the frame, an element mounted Within the frame and having shafts on its opposite sides mounted free to rotate in bearings in the frame and driving means between the frame and the element Whereby the rotation of the Jrame is adapted to also rotate the element with its axis of rotation intersecting the axis of rotation of the mounting.

GEORG-E C. WEISS. 

